Moritz Stolla receives National Blood Foundation Award For Innovative Research

Dr. Moritz Stolla, assistant professor (Hematology) has received the National Blood Foundation (NBF) Award for Innovative Research from the Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB).

This award was established in 2016 to recognize a scientist whose original research resulted in an important contribution to the body of scientific knowledge in transfusion medicine or biotherapies.

He received the award for his 2019 National Blood Foundation-funded research project, “Cold-stored Platelets for the Reversal of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy.”

The project’s findings demonstrated that cold-stored platelets were largely equivalent to room temperature-stored platelets in reversing the effect of antiplatelet therapy.

All cold-stored platelet units passed quality control analyses, and no platelet aggregates at the end of the storage period were observed. This project reported the first safety and efficacy data of 5-day cold-stored platelets in plasma.

Dr. Stolla’s data could help influence decisions to move to a dual inventory easier and could have a practice-changing impact. Since the completion of his NBF grant in 2019, Dr. Stolla has co-authored 12 scientific papers, of which he is the senior author on four.